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Monday Apr 19, 2021
Monday Apr 19, 2021
Interviewing Yang Huang, a fiction writer and computer engineer, was a real delight. We had a chance to read her forthcoming novel, The Good Son, before this interview, and we loved the way her complex characters drove a surprising and satisfying story.
We definitely recommend it - it's out May 27, 2021!
Yang has incredible advice about everything from characters to research.
As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast.
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá
Monday Mar 15, 2021
Monday Mar 15, 2021
We're here this week with a quick update, as well as an announcement of a fun new experiment! Listen for details, and join us by subscribing to our newsletter.
We also chat about the things we've learned in the last few years of developing solid writing practices, as well as where we're headed.
As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast.
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Monday Feb 01, 2021
We are so excited to talk to Elizabeth Wetmore today, the author of the novel Valentine, which we loved. We also love her story about working on a book as long as it needs, and how she's balanced many jobs while believing in her writing all along, even when she's been, in her own words, "late to the game in every possible way." So this episode features a fantastic practical discussion about making all of that work, from being led by your love for characters and place to asking for help.
We also discuss the responsibility she felt in writing a diverse cast of characters in a West Texas setting, how she got the place right, and about writing about a place you deliberately left.
Before devoting herself to writing, Elizabeth variously tended bar, taught English, drove a cab, edited psychology dissertations, and painted silos and cooling towers at a petrochemical plant. For a time, she lived in a one-room cabin in the woods outside of Flagstaff, Arizona while she worked as a classical music announcer. A native of West Texas, she is most at home in the desert, near the sea, or on the side of a mountain. She now lives in Chicago.
She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and two fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, and numerous other residencies and awards.
As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast.
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá.
Have a question you'd like us to try to answer, or a topic you'd love to have us cover? Interested in being a guest? Contact us here. Thanks for listening, and get to work!
If you like Marginally, you should check out #amwriting, with Jess and KJ, where two much more experienced writers talk through their processes with each other and celebrated guests.
Monday Dec 07, 2020
Monday Dec 07, 2020
This week, we're checking in with each other. We talk about how we're managing pandemic life and writing, and share revision woes, moving stories, #firstnovelneverdies, and things that are getting us through each day.
We'd love to hear from you; what is helping you, and what do you miss the most right now?
As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast.
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Monday Nov 16, 2020
In today’s episode, we talk to Tiffany Yates Martin, the author of the new book, Intuitive Editing: A Creative and Practical Guide to Revising Your Writing. This book, which we got to preview before the interview, gives a comprehensive and accessible guide for writers on how to edit their own work.
Tiffany also writes fiction under her pen name Phoebe Fox, and the most recent of her five novels is A Little Bit of Grace, released in August 2020.
You can find her on her website, Fox Print Editorial: https://foxprinteditorial.com/, under her own name on Medium (https://tiffanyyatesmartin.medium.com/), and under Fox Print Editorial on Twitter (@FoxPrintEd) and Facebook (@FoxPrintEditorial).
As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast.
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá.
Have a question you'd like us to try to answer, or a topic you'd love to have us cover? Interested in being a guest? Contact us here. Thanks for listening, and get to work!
If you like Marginally, you should check out #amwriting, with Jess and KJ, where two much more experienced writers talk through their processes with each other and celebrated guests.
Monday Oct 26, 2020
Monday Oct 26, 2020
In today’s episode, we bring you a conversation with writers and close friends, Shikha Malaviya and Soniah Kamal. Together, they talk about their how they went from strangers to close friends almost in the timespan of one phone conversation, how they help each other as writing partners, and how they embrace their intersecting identities to form communities of writers and readers.
As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast.
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Today we are so excited to have Nina LaCour on our show. We have been HUGE fans of Nina’s for a long time. Nina is the bestselling and Michael L. Printz Award-winning author of five critically acclaimed young adult novels published by Dutton Books. Her latest book is called Watch Over Me, a spooky atmospheric but also kind and warm book that we both devoured recently and loved.
We have a wide-ranging discussion on her literary friendships and collaborations, building communities, how she balances many projects, and also her latest book.
You can find her on her website at ninalacour.com, at her podcast Keeping A Notebook, her course The Slow Novel Lab, or her newsletter Letters from Nina. She's @nina_lacour on Instagram, and also on @theslownovellab for her course.
Enjoy!
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As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast. Meghan's occasionally on Twitter @meghanembee, and Olivia’s @roamingolivia
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá.
Have a question you'd like us to try to answer, or a topic you'd love to have us cover? Interested in being a guest? Contact us here. Thanks for listening, and get to work!
If you like Marginally, you should check out #amwriting, with Jess and KJ, where two much more experienced writers talk through their processes with each other and celebrated guests.
Monday Sep 28, 2020
Monday Sep 28, 2020
This season, we’re exploring community. One of the reasons we started this podcast was we wanted to talk about writing and day jobs with other writers, and didn’t find an existing space. So when we wanted to be part of a small critique group, it made sense to start our own. The resulting collective is one of things we’re most proud of.
Today’s episode is a discussion with some of last year’s collective members, about what works and what doesn’t, and we hope it gives you some tips and encouragement for starting your own. Let us know if you do!
In this episode, we talk to Amy Dressler, Erin Levens, Nicole Roth, and Stephanie Bucklin. Links to their websites are in the show notes so you can check them out. You can also find links to collective members Peter Amos and Sarah Hawkins, who weren’t able to join, but who are also doing some exciting writing things.
As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast. Meghan's occasionally on Twitter @meghanembee, and Olivia’s @roamingolivia
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá
Monday Sep 14, 2020
Monday Sep 14, 2020
Hi listeners
We wanted to take a second to talk to you after our long silence, which has coincided with the pandemic and the amazing activism of the Black Lives Matter movement, and … so much else.
We talk through a statement on our current thinking on these things, and also check in after a longer-than-normal summer break. We have a lot of changes in our lives! I guess many people do after these past few months.
We'd love to hear your thoughts on this statement, and also how you've been doing over the summer. We're on Instagram (@marginallypodcast), email podcast@marginallypodcast.com and our website marginallypodcast.com.
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As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast. Meghan's occasionally on Twitter @meghanembee, and Olivia’s @roamingolivia
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá.
Have a question you'd like us to try to answer, or a topic you'd love to have us cover? Interested in being a guest? Contact us here. Thanks for listening, and get to work!
If you like Marginally, you should check out #amwriting, with Jess and KJ, where two much more experienced writers talk through their processes with each other and celebrated guests.
Monday Jun 01, 2020
Monday Jun 01, 2020
We were originally planning another episode this week, but we decided to release this interview with meditation teacher, yoga teacher and writer Divya Kohli instead. Her new book, Finding Peace in Difficult Times, has been published speedily because of how relevant it is for the current situation in which we find ourselves.
As we discuss here, activism and wellness are not mutually exclusive. Meditation can help you to see what is – help you to see and feel your own feelings, but also can bring you to see what is happening, what is unjust, in the world. It doesn’t have to be a tool of accepting whatever happens and letting it go. It can make you stronger as you commit to new action to change things.
Divya also has a fascinating publishing story - she worked on various novels that didn't work until this book found her. She talks about how her book found her, and the usefulness of working with a writing coach.
You can find more about her at: www.yogawithdivya.co.uk. You can also find her online at her Facebook page.
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As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast. Meghan's occasionally on Twitter @meghanembee, and Olivia’s @roamingolivia
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá.
Have a question you'd like us to try to answer, or a topic you'd love to have us cover? Interested in being a guest? Contact us here. Thanks for listening, and get to work!
If you like Marginally, you should check out #amwriting, with Jess and KJ, where two much more experienced writers talk through their processes with each other and celebrated guests.